Holy Well of St Clether is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1952. Holy well. 1 related planning application.
Holy Well of St Clether
- WRENN ID
- other-bastion-khaki
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1952
- Type
- Holy well
- OS grid reference
- SX 202 845
- Coordinates
- 50.63321, -4.54343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Holy Well of St Clether is a holy well, likely dating from the 15th century but with earlier origins, that was restored in 1897. It is constructed from roughly dressed granite and features a steeply pitched roof made of large granite slabs with gable ends at both the front and rear.
The well has a rectangular plan and is built into the side of a bank, with the ground rising at the rear. Water flows into the well sump and is then conveyed through an underground channel that runs beneath the east end of St Clether Chapel, which is located just 1.5 meters to the south.
The exterior of the wellhouse is tall and narrow, topped with a high, steeply pitched roof and a gable end at the front. It features a hollow chamfered granite basket arch at the front, with stone rubble walls on either side that project outward to form low benches. Inside, there is a rectangular plan well sump.
Local climate
Holy Well of St Clether sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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